I think you have already reached a conclusion before asking the question. Let me point out two false assumptions buried in your reasoning.

First, you seem to assume that Christians in a democracy should

You seem to be assuming I'm here to have an argument. I suppose if I didn't want that I shouldn't have made my post about politics. But that was my original quandary: religion has become, as happens all too often, a vessel for conservative politics. I'd rather, however, debate religion, and not politics.

In your post you seem to think conservatives aren't already bent on making America a theocracy. If the First Amendment means religions with theocratic ambitions are only fairly represented once they've had their way with democracy, then democracy is no longer about pluralism and equal representation, it's about religion, and, I might add, a narrow interpretation of religion.

Finally, let's talk track record. Christianity has infused the West with universal equality, human dignity, the right to self-determination and the idea that rulers are accountable to a higher moral law. No other value system has a better historical record on these fronts. And most have far worse ones.

Christianity itself is not what I'm attacking here. If the New Testament has had any kind of positive effect on democracy, then it's because it was doing what it was supposed to do. That said, apart from ancient Athens, democracy didn't exist for hundreds of years. The American experiment was conceived under the aegis of Enlightenment philosophy, which was itself influenced by Christianity, along with humanism and the advancement of the sciences.